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Sunday, December 22, 2024

Whatever happened to the rule of law? (Guest post)

(A guest post.)

The rule of law is the bedrock of modern democratic civilization.

Alexander Hamilton once said “The instruments by which [government] must act are either the authority of the laws or force. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty" Tully No. III, [28 August 1794]

I was previously under the impression that the legal system carried some weight, both in international arenas, and certainly within the US. Recent events seem to illustrate how thin the veneer of civilization really is. Fifteen hundred American criminals were pardoned in one day, Venezuelan drug gangs have poured in through porous borders, governments fall under the control of terrorists, and journalists continue to report on the chaos using neutral language that sounds a lot like ChatGPT.

In his recent comments about Syria, Vladimir Putin stated "... we are on the side of international law and for the sovereignty of all countries, while respecting their territorial integrity, meaning Syria."

This quote ought to give us a good chuckle, in light of Putin's abysmal track record of invading other countries, including Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia. Even Sweden and Finland are preparing for a Russian invasion:

But before we start throwing stones in glass houses, the US Department of State has some explaining to do:

"US dropping terrorism bounty on Syrian leader after first diplomatic visit since 2012"

The article quotes directly from the Department of State press briefing on 12/20/2024:

"QUESTION: Okay. All right, I’ll go with the second one, is: How do you – can you explain the dynamic of removing the $10 million bounty on somebody who’s wanted by the FBI list? Is this a good thing for other people on this list, encourage them to disengage from terrorism? Or is it only applicable to Syria?
ASSISTANT SECRETARY LEAF: So this is a decision, a policy decision, that was made in the interests of and consonant with and aligned with the fact that we are beginning a discussion with HTS. So, if I’m sitting with the HTS leader and having a lengthy, detailed discussion about a whole series of interested – or interests of the U.S., interests of Syria, maybe interests of the region, suffice to say it’s a little incoherent then to have a bounty on the guy’s head. Otherwise, I should ask the FBI to come in and, like, arrest him or something. So, I’m being facetious, but you know what I mean. We have a set of issues that we would like to discuss with HTS over time, and it is strictly pertaining to Syria and to the circumstances that we see before us. So no, it has no bearing on any other person."

Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf seems to argue that since she is ignoring US law by sitting with a wanted terrorist, and not arresting him, she is somehow prevented from obeying the law, since that would contradict what she is actually doing. In other words, since she can do no wrong, whatever she is doing must be right. Ms. Leaf may one day face a Senate hearing for these statements. I would caution her to refrain from using the cliche defense of "it depends on the context."

In this era of bizarre contradictions and inverted logic, contrast the above events with the arrest warrant for Netanyahu, issued by the International Criminal Court in the Hague (ICC). Charged with a preposterous allegation of a war crime, without hard evidence, and without any attempt at a judicial hearing, the Prime Minister of a democratic country is suddenly a wanted criminal.

"Netanyahu will be arrested if he comes to Auschwitz memorial, Polish government confirms - report"

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/benjamin-netanyahu/article-834302

Other countries have also indicated they would arrest Netanyahu, given the opportunity:

Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Lithuania, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Turkey, Jordan, Norway, and of course Sweden, have all professed their unwavering loyalty to the Rome Statute.

Now consider international law as it pertains to diplomatic immunity:

Article 29 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 stipulates:

The person of a diplomatic agent shall be inviolable. He shall not be liable to any form of arrest or detention. The receiving State shall treat him with due respect and shall take all appropriate steps to prevent any attack on his person, freedom or dignity.

It is doubtful that Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani within the terrorist group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, is legally entitled to the immunity afforded to a diplomatic agent. After all, just because you can topple a government does not automatically mean you represent the government.

Conversely, Benjamin Netanyahu , as a democratically elected Prime Minister, most certainly qualifies as a diplomat, and does receive full immunity under the Vienna Convention.

Is the ICC aware of this convention? Are the above listed countries aware of it? Will US relations with these countries continue as before? Should they? Are there any adults at the ICC, the UN, or the Department of State? Will international law make a comeback on 1/20/2025, or do we now live in a "post-legal world?"

[This is a controversial issue in the legal community, a clear contradiction between the ICC and the Vienna Convention. In the cases that it has happened that a leader with a warrant visited another country, even in cases that the national court ruled that he should be arrested, there have been no arrests, which strongly seems to indicate that state practice - which largely determines practical international law - has so far ruled against respecting the ICC. But, as we've seen so many times, when it comes to Israel the laws are interpreted differently.- EoZ]

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Hamas gets funded by the West, and no one wants to talk about it

Eyal Ofer writes an important tweet:

In Israel, there is a complete lack of understanding regarding how Hamas funds itself.
I still hear nonsense like "Iran provides 70% of Hamas' funding" (as Yaron Blum claimed two days ago on Oded Ben Ami's show) or people who believe that money is smuggled into Gaza via Rafah and accumulates there. It's the opposite: Hamas is looking for ways to get the significant sums it earns inside Gaza out of Gaza.

Just last week, in several interviews and articles, I mentioned how, due to a unique coincidence, we discovered that 10% of the employees of the WCK organization are Hamas operatives.

An organization introduced into Gaza just this year by Israel already employs 62 Hamas members (out of 584 workers hired this year alone).

From my past experience, I can assure you that additional significant percentages of its employees are relatives of Hamas members.

Hamas operates like a mafia and a clan-based enterprise: one brother is in the military wing, another in the police force, they ensure the sister works for UNRWA, a non-combat-profile cousin becomes a driver for an aid organization, an uncle gets a government position, another cousin is a "journalist" for Al Jazeera, and the grandmother is added to the list of welfare recipients.

What people here still fail to grasp is how much the Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to fund Hamas. This has been going on for years.

Even when there were times of open conflict between them and Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) stopped salaries (which led to the Qatari suitcases of cash), the PA still indirectly funded Hamas.

Here’s an example of European money being funneled not even to the PA but to a semi-governmental urban development fund.
It’s only $3 million (total grant is $9 million for this "Green Gaza" project), but there are many more similar projects. Hundreds of them.

This fund issued a tender for (I’m not joking) “consultation services—social activities for a green Gaza and climate change prevention.”

What are the chances that Hamas' regime in Gaza will manage to place its members or their relatives among the beneficiaries of this Belgian grant?

In my opinion: 100%. Long live the "green" climate in Gaza.

Thank you to the Belgian government for your contribution. Multiply this story by 200, and you'll see how Hamas is funded.

Not just by Iran (in extreme cases, Iran provides 5%-10% of Hamas' funding).
The vast majority of Hamas' funding comes from its ability to funnel money that the world sends to the PA (and other Gaza charitable causes) and Gaza for its own purposes.

Indeed, there have been plenty of Western initiatives pouring money into Gaza, and no one bats an eye.

NGO Monitor examined 17 grants from European NGOs in 2022 that totaled €18.7 million.

A glance at the EU External Action webpage shows other initiatives that include Gaza, like the some €60 million to the Palestinian Cash Transfer Programme that gives cash assistance to some 108,000 poor families in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In Gaza, the cash doubtless goes primarily to families with connections to Hamas.

The European Joint Strategy in support of Palestine 2021-2024 mentions lots of things about Gaza, but not a word about avoiding Hamas from taking the funding.

Their report on previous initiatives shows that money goes into Gaza, but they have no metrics on whether the money is doing what it is supposed to do. So for example the EU pours money into combatting gender based violence, but it says, data "was not collected in a systematic way and data from Gaza is not available." So that is money that went down the drain - and to Hamas.

They also throw money in Gaza at "climate change policy" and in helping Palestinian youth including Gaza. They have programs to promote democracy in Gaza, to improve the judicial system, to unify the administrative systems of the West Bank and Gaza, to improve local governance - the list goes on and on, and it is obvious to all that the EU was throwing money Gaza for programs that have zero chance of making any difference under Hamas rule.

Does anyone seriously think that money going to combat climate change in Gaza goes anywhere but to line Hamas' pockets?

I cannot verify Ofer's claims that the vast majority of Hamas' funding comes from these Western projects. The IDF probably could, now that they have access to Hamas computers in Gaza. But now that we know how Hamas views all Gaza civilians as having no purpose except to die to protect terrorists, there is no doubt that the bulk of funding meant to help Gaza governance and health and welfare ended up going to Hamas or Hamas-linked families.

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By Daled Amos

The world was horrified when it learned of the Hamas massacre. Palestinian terrorists invaded Israel, massacring over 1,200 men, women, and children, while taking hundreds hostage. World leaders condemned the murders and kidnappings.

But not everyone did. Some defended it.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, Students for Justice in Palestine "hailed and defended" the massacre, and "some, like the SJP chapter at Columbia University, have published social media posts that openly support acts of terror against Israel." The ADL points out that:

many of the organization’s campus chapters have explicitly endorsed the actions of Hamas and their armed attacks on Israeli civilians and voiced an increasingly radical call for confronting and “dismantling” Zionism on U.S. college campuses.

The Democratic Socialists of America were no less enthusiastic in their defense of Hamas. The ADL writes that the DSA, Salt Lake City Chapter:

published a “Statement on Palestinian Liberation” on October 7, expressing their “unwavering solidarity with the people of Palestine in their decades long fight for national liberation” and urging Americans “to stand up against settler-colonial, Zionist apartheid.” The statement proclaimed the group’s full support for the attack on Israeli civilians, writing that “it is not terrorism or anti-semitism to fight against this injustice.”

The day after the attack, The Times of Israel reported how quickly anti-Israel groups jumped to endorse the massacre:

In New York, the pro-Palestinian groups Within Our Lifetime, Samidoun, Decolonize This Place, Al-Awda and others announced rallies on Sunday in Times Square and on Monday at the Israeli consulate “to defend the heroic Palestinian resistance.”

WOL enthusiastically said that “supporting Palestinian liberation is supporting whatever means necessary it takes to get there. Freedom has only ever been achieved through resistance.”

Just three days after the massacre, The Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee came out with a statement defending Hamas. The statement declared that they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” and excused the murders on the basis that “today’s events did not occur in a vacuum.”

The Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, also equivocated, in his remarks to the UN Security Council three weeks later, that "it is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum."

While radical anti-Israel groups did not hesitate to come out in support of the Palestinian terrorists and the atrocities that they committed, it did not take long for others to hedge on their condemnations and assign responsibility to Israel.

It is shocking to see how uninhibited anti-Israel groups were to excuse the attacks, and how others--whom we might have expected better of--were quick to fall in line with the message of the ongoing pro-Palestinian riots that defended the mass murders.

The question arises: just how far will some go to defend murder, outside of the events in the Middle East?

It sounds like a ridiculous question, especially in the context of Western values. Still, you have to wonder, especially when Americans came out in defense of the recent murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Luigi Mangione was charged with first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism in Thompson’s death.

As shocking as Brian Thompson's murder is, the reaction to it is even more unnerving.

According to Emerson College Polling, 68% of voters said the murder was unacceptable, while 17% found the action acceptable. Digging deeper, the poll found:

“While 68% of voters overall reject the killer’s actions, younger voters and Democrats are more split — 41% of voters aged 18-29 find the killer’s actions acceptable (24% somewhat acceptable and 17% completely acceptable), while 40% find them unacceptable; 22% of Democrats find them acceptable, while 59% find them unacceptable, this compares to 12% of Republicans and 16% of independents who find the actions acceptable, underscoring shifting societal attitudes among the youngest electorate and within party lines,” Kimball said.

Of those in the 18-29 year old age group, 41% found Thompson's murder acceptable to some degree. To a large extent, these are the people protesting on college campuses and on the streets in defense of Hamas terrorists.

Social media was full of posts approving the murder. Alex Goldenberg, a senior adviser for The Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers noted that “the surge of social media posts praising and glorifying the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson is deeply concerning." But, according to Goldenberg, some people online went beyond approval:

“We’ve identified highly engaged posts circulating the names of other healthcare CEOs and others celebrating the shooter. The framing of this incident as some opening blow in a class war and not a brutal murder is especially alarming.”

The justification given for the murder was that insurance companies are primarily interested in making a profit, even if Americans are killed by denying them coverage.

Politicians and public figures chimed in.

“And people wonder why we want these executives dead,” Taylor Lorenz, a former New York Times and Washington Post journalist, wrote on Bluesky a few hours after the CEO, Brian Thompson, 50, was gunned down in Manhattan by a man with a silenced pistol. After a backlash, Lorenz later posted, “no, that doesn’t mean people should murder them.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren chimed in:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said in interviews this week that the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was wrong but also served as a "warning" of sorts that "you can only push people so far."

"We'll say it over and over," Warren said on MSNBC. "Violence is never the answer. This guy [Luigi Mangione] gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth[care], but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands."

And so did AOC:

“This is not to say that an act of violence is justified, but I think for anyone who is confused or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them,” the congresswoman told CBS News’ Jaala Brown on Thursday.

...AOC’s comments drew a slew of backlash from those who are fed up with those excusing the cold-blooded murder, lovers of the accused killer, Luigi Mangione, and posters across the Big Apple warning other CEOs that they’re next on the hit list.

And sure enough, if you do a search, you will find responses that echo the Secretary General's excuse for Hamas, applied now on social media to Luigi Mangione:

o This act of violence did not occur in a vacuum. UnitedHealth Group, and its subsidiary UnitedHealthcare, are corporate behemoths on a scale the world has never seen.

o You are trying to simplify it because it makes the situation easier in your head if you think of it in black and white, but as always, it did not happen in a vacuum.

o It doesn’t mean that I endorse the assassination of Brian Thompson; it means that I empathize with John Quincy Archibald [reference to movie John Q.]. This murder didn’t happen in a vacuum.

o Many people see Luigi Mangione as a hero because they understand, consciously or not, the fundamental violence of the system in which we live. Luigi didn’t act in a vacuum; his actions were born of desperation, anger, and a sense of moral reckoning.

The point is that this attitude, this support for murder as acceptable, may be part of a trend.

Remember when Representative Maxine Waters egged people on to violence against people associated with the Trump Administration:

I have no sympathy for these people that are in this administration who know it’s wrong for what they’re doing on so many fronts. They tend to not want to confront this president or even leave, but they know what they’re doing is wrong. I want to tell you, these members of his cabinet who remain and try to defend him, they won’t be able to go to a restaurant, they won’t be able to stop at a gas station, they’re not going to be able to shop at a department store. The people are going to turn on them.

They’re going to protest. They’re absolutely going to harass them until they decide that they’re going to tell the president, ‘No, I can’t hang with you.’

At the time, Legal Insurrection pointed out that Americans were responding to Waters and her call:

o  DC Socialist Group Chases DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Out of a Restaurant Shouting, “Shame!”
o  “Justice-minded” Website Doxes Sr. White House Advisor Stephen Miller
o  #TheResistance crosses another line, confronts DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at home
o  Sarah Sanders Kicked Out of Virginia Restaurant Because She Works For Trump
o  Florida AG Pam Bondi Accosted By Protestors At Tampa Movie Theater

Those incidents, and the provocations, have ceased. But with Trump starting his second term and the continued anti-Israel protests, there is no way to know if "moral indignation" will be used to excuse more violence.

As Erich Fromm wrote:

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

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I ask for donations only a few times a year, usually at the beginning of every new season. As I look at my last post asking for donations in September, it is astonishing how different the atmosphere is.

In those three months, Israel crushed Hezbollah, de-linked the war in the north from the one in the south, attacked Iran with an unmistakable message that they could do much more, sent another message to the Houthis but also a signal that things could get much worse for them, and forced Hamas to beg for a cease fire when previously they had demanded a surrender. Syria fell in large part due to Israel's actions, and Iran's malign influence has shrunk significantly.

Israel has defied the world in two important ways. One was by not knuckling under to pressure to end the fighting prematurely before its military goals were met. The other, no less important, has been to prove that Israel knows better than the world how things work in the Middle East.

Time and time again, the dire predictions of the international community - Israel taking Rafah would be a bloodbath, Israel could not defeat Hezbollah without suffering thousands of Israeli casualties, an attack on Iran would result in a massive retaliation that would dwarf the Gaza war - were proven wrong.

Not all is wonderful. The hostages are still imprisoned, global antisemitism is at the worst levels seen since World War II, the "genocide" blood libel has gained mainstream acceptance and new threats are arising. But the vibe has shifted and winning is a lot better than being seen as being in a quagmire.

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While antisemitic incidents in Canada are soaring, "Jewish" anti-Zionist group doesn't say a word

In Canada over the past year, and especially recent months, attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions have reached epidemic levels.

Congregation Beth Tikvah in Montreal was firebombed - twice.

Antisemitic graffiti was found multiple times at Toronto mass transit sites.

More antisemitic graffiti was scrawled in Jewish neighborhoods of Toronto including a synagogue..

Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School in York was hit by gunfire three separate times.

Someone set fire to the front doors of the Schara Tzedeck Synagogue in Vancouver.

Montreal’s Belz Yeshiva Ketana was shot at.

And these are only a few of the incidents.

But Canada's version of "Jewish Voice for Peace," an anti-Zionist but purportedly Jewish organization called "Independent Jewish Voices," is almost completely silent.

I can find only one mention of one incident - and that didn't condemn it, but warned against anyone jumping to conclusions that the people who smashed windows in a Fredericton synagogue were anti-Israel.

Meanwhile, in that same town, a Jewish Israeli teen was assaulted mercilessly by a Muslim student at her school over "Gaza" - on video, witnessed by several students who didn't lift a finger to help - and it took two weeks for police to make an arrest. Of course, IJV didn't say a word of protest for that or the dozens of other antisemitic incidents that made headlines in Canada over the past year.

IJV claims to be against antisemitism. Its silence proves otherwise. When the attackers have even the slightest chance of being anti-Israel, then they condone those attacks with their silence.

There is nothing Jewish about IJV. They, like similar groups in the US, UK and Australia, just use their supposed Judaism as a means to make hating proud Jews socially acceptable.

If there is still a "pintele yid" inside anyone who considers IJV to be their home, hopefully they will realize they are being used a mere props for an organization that supports antisemites.

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12/21 Links: Israel is winning the war, while the West retreats; 16 hurt as Houthi missile from Yemen hits Tel Aviv; Violent Anti-Semitism As a Campus Recruiting Tool

From Ian:

Israel is winning the war, while the West retreats

Every act of betrayal of Israel has been accompanied by the constant barrage of international media coverage that works on the principle of blame Israel first, and ask questions later. In this Gaza-through-the-looking-glass version of events, Israel’s just war against the genocidal death cult responsible for the 7 October pogrom is somehow twisted into an act of genocide.

In reality, the IDF has gone to greater lengths than any army in history to reduce civilian casualties, while making clear that Hamas is responsible for every death. Yet many in the West are too blinded by anti-Israeli hatred to see the truth. As a top US military strategist asked in Newsweek in March: ‘Israel has created a new standard for urban warfare. Why will no one admit it?’ The only answer appears to be – because it’s Israel that has set that remarkably humane standard of warfare.

The double standards by which the world judges Israel were starkly displayed after the fall of the Assad regime. Faced with dangerous uncertainty, Israel sent troops into a previously demilitarised zone to secure its border with Syria, and launched air strikes to prevent chemical weapons falling into the hands of Islamists. The United Nations and states including France immediately condemned these reasonable defensive actions for allegedly breaking international law. Yet when the Turkish government launched a fresh offensive against the Kurdish minority within Syria, there was not a word of condemnation from the ‘international community’.

The desertion of Israel is a travesty not only for Israelis and Jews worldwide forced to face a wave of anti-Semitism alone, but for the West itself, too. The Israelis are fighting for the principles on which our civilised societies were built: democracy, national sovereignty and freedom. We should be supporting them as the front line in the global war against barbarism and slavery.

Yet the globalist elites of Western society have abandoned those foundational principles, and they now fear and loathe the Israelis who dare to stand up for them. That is why since 7 October, we have seen the consolidation of an unholy anti-Israeli alliance in the West, between Jew-hating Islamists and self-loathing left-liberals. Through 2024, everything that is rotten in our societies has continued to congeal around the banners of the anti-Israel crusade.

To its eternal credit, Israel continues to ignore the Western naysayers and fight its corner. Yet as the old order in the Middle East falls apart, with the Western powers losing their grip on events, the future remains uncertain.

It is time, as Israeli prime minister Netanyahu told the hostile UN a few months ago, to make a choice: will we bequeath future generations the ‘blessing’ of a Middle East shaped by Israel and its pro-democracy allies, or the ‘curse’ of a region dominated by Islamists, with all the implications of that worldwide?

In 2024, the West made the wrong choices. In 2025, there is still time to put that right and get behind the Israelis who are fighting for us all.

Thank You, Israel, for Saving the World, Defending Freedom and Reshaping the Middle East

When it comes to national security, appeasement is not an option. Bribing aggressors only finances their militaries for attacks on the West in the future. Israel's approach to combating terrorism has always been characterized by thoroughness and determination -- for which is usually put through the tortures of hell by the very countries it is working to save.

With a vision of ultimately fostering peace, harmony, security and prosperity throughout the region, as in the Abraham Accords, Israel expanded its military operations beyond Hamas... reshaping the Middle East into a region free of the grip of terror... Make Persia Great Again!

So long as Iran's regime remains in power, brutalizing its people and making plans for global expansion, there can be no chance for peace in the region.

Removing the regime... would bring lasting security and prosperity to the Middle East and beyond.... One could then set about subduing Turkey and its terrorist proxies in Syria.

Gestures won't remedy antisemitism, actions will

Respecting an office of state when its holder is controversial or perceived as undeserving presents a profound moral and practical dilemma, particularly in moments of crisis.

This issue came sharply into focus last Shabbat, when Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made an unannounced visit to the Perth Hebrew Congregation, offering solidarity after the suspected arson attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne.

The visit, arranged with only half an hour’s notice, sparked a storm of debate within the Jewish community and raised broader questions about the interplay between respect for institutions, personal convictions, and the challenges posed by social media discourse.

The backdrop to Albanese’s visit was a tragedy: The Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne had been targeted in what police have described as a likely terror attack. This occurred amidst a surge in antisemitism across Australia, exacerbated by the Israel-Hamas War following the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

Albanese, who was in Perth at the time, likely saw the synagogue visit as an opportunity to demonstrate solidarity with Jewish Australians during a deeply unsettling moment for the community.

However, the prime minister’s relationship with the Jewish community is fraught. Many Australian Jews view him as, at best, unsympathetic to Israel and, at worst, indifferent to the rise of antisemitism. His recent appearance at a protest against antisemitism in Sydney was marred by boos, reflecting widespread frustration and distrust. These sentiments complicated his reception at the Perth synagogue and placed the synagogue’s rabbi in an unenviable position.

Respect for the office vs distrust of the individual
The core of the dilemma lay in balancing respect for the office of prime minister with the community’s grievances against the individual holding that office.

In Jewish tradition, the Shabbat service includes a prayer for the welfare of the government, underscoring a recognition of the importance of civic authority and communal responsibility.

Rejecting a sitting prime minister from attending such a service, particularly in the context of a solidarity visit, would have been a profound statement – arguably one of disrespect not just to Albanese as a person but to the institution he represents. Yet, for many congregants, Albanese’s presence felt incongruous, even offensive.

This tension highlights a broader issue faced by faith communities and civic groups worldwide: how to engage with political leaders whose actions or policies are viewed as antithetical to their values. Can one separate the office from its holder? And should respect for the office override personal or communal grievances?

The rabbi of the Perth Hebrew Congregation ultimately chose to welcome Albanese, inviting him to address the congregation briefly and say the prayer for the government.

This decision demonstrated an adherence to the principle of respecting the office while providing the Jewish community an opportunity to receive a gesture of solidarity in a moment of fear and vulnerability. It was a difficult, nuanced decision that placed communal unity and decorum above personal grievances – a stance rooted in the Jewish value of being a mensch (a person of integrity and honor).

Early this morning, a ballistic missile from Houthi forces in Yemen slammed into a park in Jaffa. Debris and the shockwave shattered numerous windows, causing over 20 relatively minor injuries.

Israel's missile defenses failed to intercept the missile.

That's the bad news.

Here's the good news:

1. It is a miracle that the missile did not hit a building, which would have caused numerous injuries and deaths. Only the area of Tel Aviv/Jaffa are open space, which means that a missile avoiding hitting any building directly is significantly less likely than hitting a building.

2. The Houthis are presumably using Iran's most sophisticated missiles. While they claim that they aimed at a military target, clearly the missiles they have do not have good accuracy - it can be presumed that any military facilities are nowhere near the impact site, probably hundreds of meters away t the least, judging from the photos of the obviously residential buildings surrounding the park.

This means that any claims that the Houthis have that they are only aiming at military targets is absurd - they are aiming at populated areas and the attacks are indiscriminate. This means that by any definition, the Houthi attacks are war crimes.

3. While the Arrow missiles missing their targets are quite concerning, the Israelis learn quickly how to correct mistakes. At least this mistake wasn't fatal.

Another important point is the lack of any condemnation of the hundreds of Houthi attacks on Israel by :"human rights" groups. It further proves that "human rights" groups like Amnesty and Human Rights Watch don't care about Jewish lives. The only time I found either group say that Houthi attacks may be a war crime is when HRW was condemning Israel for retaliating; they have plenty of articles condemning the Houthis for other crimes but not one against Houthi attacks on Israel. They simply cannot credibly claim that they are evenhanded - their bias is obvious to anyone who isn't themselves biased.

The question is, can Israel do anything to deter the Houthis?

I believe they can. Not by threatening the Houthis.- but by threatening Iran.

Iran still has not responded to Israel's last raid, because it knows that any Israeli response will be much more damaging. Israel's airstrikes sent a clear message that Israel can hit any area in Iran and that it was pulling its punches. Iran cannot thread the needle between showing that they are not cowards and dooming their oil exports, for example.

Israel needs to announce clearly that it considers the Houthis to be a proxy of Iran, doing Iran's bidding, and the next missile or drone from Yemen will prompt a response to Tehran. And follow through.

Nothing Israel or the US can do will stop the Houthis (except a Hezbollah-type campaign to kill all their leaders, a very difficult task from that distance.) But the Iranians are more practical and care more about self-reservation than the Houthis. Only Iran can tell them to stop, so let's make the "proxy" issue explicit: proxies do the bidding of a master, and Israel will go after the master.

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12/20 Links Pt2: The cult of the keffiyeh; Welcome to ‘Paddystine’; Tucker Carlson, Superspreader; Toronto Jewish girls' school shot at for third time

From Ian:

Brendan O'Neill: The cult of the keffiyeh

The keffiyeh classes, in contrast, are attracted to the Palestinian people not for their dynamism, but for their wretchedness. Not for their vim but for their victimisation. Where the elite posturing that Wolfe so mercilessly ribbed was ‘vicarious radicalism’, the cult of the keffiyeh is something far more unpleasant: vicarious victimhood. The keffiyeh classes seem keen to ‘appropriate’ not only the clothing of the Palestinians, but their suffering, too. Witness the organisers of the Gaza encampment at Columbia University in New York City mimicking both Palestinian style and Palestinian privation. One student leader said she and her comrades were going hungry and required ‘humanitarian aid’. Do you want us to die of dehydration and starvation?, she asked university bosses. In a viral clip, a group of keffiyeh-wearing students was seen receiving ‘humanitarian aid’ through the college gates. I say humanitarian aid – it was probably a Starbucks order and blueberry muffins from a nearby bodega. Here we had privileged youths on an Ivy League campus cosplaying as victims of a humanitarian crisis; comfortably off Ivy Leaguers masquerading as the wretched of the Earth.

It provided a grim insight into the true nature of ‘Palestine solidarity’. It shone a light on why so many of our young chant, ‘In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians’. This is a new and unsettling form of activism. It is not 1960s-style solidarity with foreign struggles or even radical chic, that old politics as fashion. No, it is a coveting of suffering. The keffiyeh classes, it seems to me, crave the moral rush of oppression, the thrill of persecution. They pull on the garb of a beleaguered people in order to escape, however fleetingly, the pampered reality of their own lives. In order to taste that most prized of social assets in the woke era: victimhood. In draping the keffiyeh around their shoulders, they get to be someone else for a while. Someone less bourgeois, less white. Someone a little more exotic, a little more interesting. It’s less politics than therapy. They seek to wash away the ‘sin’ of their privilege through mimicking what they consider to be the least privileged people on Earth. That’s what the keffiyeh has become: the cloth with which the rich seek to scrub away their white guilt.

If the keffiyeh is the uniform of this Palestine politics of victimhood, then its currency is images of Palestinian suffering. Where yesteryear’s purveyors of radical chic revelled in images of revolting minorities, today’s followers of the cult of the keffiyeh savour images of Palestinian destitution. They trade in photos of Palestinian pain, meaning that social media has become ‘oversaturated with traumatic imagery’, as one writer describes it. Log on and you’ll be instantly exposed to a ‘kaleidoscopic view of human suffering without respite’. Not content with commodifying Palestinian attire, they commodify Palestinian trauma, too. They make a spectacle of Palestinian agony. Not to assist Palestinians in any meaningful way – how could it? – but rather to inflame their own satisfying feelings of collective moral revulsion.

Even requests from Palestinians to stop sharing horrific images from their wars have not been enough to slow this grim trade. A few years ago, Palestinian psychiatrist Samah Jabr counselled Westerners against sharing ‘shocking content’ showing ‘shattered people’ in the Palestinian territories, on the basis that such ‘pictures of pain’ violate ‘the privacy and dignity of the subjects’ and can ‘create terror’ among Palestinians who might fear suffering the same fate. These images might ‘provide thrills’ to outside observers, and nurture ‘more “likes” and “shares”’ online, but they can be devastating to ‘public morale’ in the Palestinian territories, Jabr wrote. It was a fruitless plea. Imagery of Palestinian suffering is too valuable to the keffiyeh classes to be sacrificed to trifling concerns about Palestinian dignity. Your pain is ours now, just like your headwear.

The elites’ vicarious victimhood through the Palestine drama is a dangerous game. It seems undeniable now that the more the cultural powers of the West crave and collect depictions of Palestinian distress, the more the ideologues of Hamas will be willing to supply such depictions. Witness Yahya Sinwar’s insistence, in the summarising words of CNN, that the ‘spiralling civilian death toll in Gaza’ will likely ‘work in [Hamas’s] favour’. Sinwar, the then military leader of Hamas in Gaza, callously described the deaths of Palestinians as ‘necessary sacrifices’ to get the Israelis ‘right where we want them’.

Hamas clearly recognises that when the cultural establishments of global capitalism treat every image of Palestinian death as an indictment of Israeli evil, when the West’s activist class, media elites and online influencers hold up every picture of a broken Palestinian as proof of the Jewish State’s ‘uniquely murderous nature’, then it is in Hamas’s interests to prolong the war and allow more such suffering to occur. Having made Palestinian agony the currency of their activism, the activist class cannot now feign surprise at Hamas’s willingness to let this disastrous war continue. Hamas’s intransigence in the face of its far more powerful foe is a direct consequence of the keffiyeh classes’ commodification of Palestinian pain as a testament to both Israeli malfeasance and Western indifference.

The cult of victimhood’s greatest offence is to reduce everything to a simplistic clash between the oppressed and the oppressor, good and evil, light and dark. This movement requires not only victims it might ostentatiously empathise with, but also the opposite: victimisers, the monsters of persecution, who must be noisily raged at. As Professor Joshua Berman writes, the ‘Palestinian ideology of victimhood… constructs a struggle between a victim-hero in opposition to a scapegoat’. And this can lead to a ‘revelling in caricatured depictions of the oppressor’, he says. So where Palestinian radicals ‘traffic in classic hook-nose anti-Semitic tropes’, their Western supporters traffic in the insistence that the Jewish State is uniquely murderous, given to bloodletting, obsessed with murdering children, and so on. This is the thin line between pity and hate. Pity for Palestinians morphs with frightening ease into hatred for the world’s only Jewish nation, courtesy of the morally infantile narrative the cultural establishment has weaved around this most fraught of conflicts.

The end result? Protesters in keffiyehs telling Jews in New York City to ‘go back to Poland’. Activists in keffiyehs shouting on the New York subway: ‘Raise your hand if you’re a Zionist.’ Britons in keffiyehs marching alongside radical Islamists who long for further pogroms against the Jewish State. The aftermath of 7 October is a painful reminder that the facile moral binaries of identity politics are far more likely to resuscitate racism than tackle it.

Seth Mandel: Tucker Carlson, Superspreader

Carlson begins his interview of Sachs by asking about the big news of the day: the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s monstrous dictator. The crimes of Assad and his father, who ruled Syria before Bashar, pockmark the earth: mass graves and torture prisons dot the face of the Levant. A rebellion against Assad that began during the Arab Spring finally succeeded. The story is gruesome but simple: A butcher was overthrown by his subjects.

In the clip that opens the show, Sachs has another explanation: the Jews. “It’s part of a 30-year effort. This is [Benjamin] Netanyahu’s war to remake the Middle East.”

Just after Sept. 11, 2001, Sachs preaches, Gen. Wesley Clark was brought in to the Pentagon and “told that the neocons and the Israelis are going to remake the Middle East.” It would require war with seven countries, and “we’ve been at war in six of them now. And I mean we, the United States on behalf of Israel… So what happened in Syria last week was the culmination of a long-term effort by Israel to reshape the Middle East in its image.”

Sachs refers to the “Israel lobby” as the agents of nefarious foreign interests in America, and he describes Jewish control as so airtight that it “doesn’t really matter who’s president. This is long-term deep-state policy.” Indeed, says Sachs, “Obama ordered the CIA to overthrow Assad.”

Why would Obama do that, asks Carlson. “Because Israel has run American foreign policy in the Middle East for 30 years,” Sachs responds. “That’s how it works.”

Sachs gives us a ballpark figure of the human cost of this supposed Jewish control: 1 million people are dead today who would otherwise have been alive if not for Israel’s supposed bloodlust. That places a lot of blood on Jewish hands. But as noted earlier, that’s a story that never gets old.

The second characteristic of anti-Semitism that keeps it so potent is the way information moves. It travels on a populist current because “the powers that be” are compromised and cannot be trusted. Tucker Carlson has an audience primed to imbibe all the information “They” supposedly don’t want you to know. Carlson can’t just repeat it all himself every single night because that would get boring, so he brings on guests to help out.

People like Carlson and Sachs rely on the network-contagion effect, in which information moves through social networks after being introduced by a trusted source, to spread their poison. Typical followers of Jeffrey Sachs aren’t relying on Tucker Carlson for their information. So Carlson hands it off to Sachs, who is essentially playing the role of ideological drug mule.

Elon Musk, the owner of X/Twitter and an adviser to president-elect Trump, reposted the interview himself online. Musk didn’t say anything specifically about the Israel portion, but a Musk post gives a superboost to anything looking for more networks to spread to.

So, yes, Carlson matters here. He is a superspreader of the brain mold that makes our politics and culture sicker, gloomier, angrier, and more extreme at a time when there is an eager market for it.

Antisemitism backfires on the perpetrators: Will the church ever learn?

Will the church ever learn? When it comes to Israel, it is debatable. First, the soon to stand-down-Archbishop of Canterbury effectively urged member states of the United Nations to back the call of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for Israel to withdraw from Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem, the heart of their territory.

Now the Pope is calling for a genocide investigation about Israel’s military actions in Gaza. But is the investigation justified? Leading American and British military men think otherwise. (Ret.) Col Richard Kemp (UK) and Prof Geoffrey Corn (USA) are just some who after fact-finding missions to Gaza have publicly exonerated Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor.

Why this fixation on Israel? Not for the first time Jewish people have asked why the church is largely silent regarding the murder of Africa’s Christians, for instance. At the heart of the problem is the chosenness of Israel.

“The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors…” (Deuteronomy 7:6-9 NIV) The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob chose the Jewish people, and the rest of the nations apparently have difficulty accepting this.

“If there were no chosen people, there would be no war in the Middle East,” claimed a Canadian lecturer. Hitler has been credited with saying there was no room for two chosen peoples.

Chosenness, though, comes with a price. So does antisemitism. It backfires on the perpetrators. A case in point is the recent resignation of former Archbishop of Canterbury, albeit for a completely unrelated issue – the cover-up of the abuse scandal. Could this be in part the outworking of Scripture? “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse…” (Genesis 12:3 NIV)

12/20 Links Pt1: Poland Says It Will Arrest Bibi If PM Attends Auschwitz Liberation Anniversary; Car ramming kills 11 German Christmas market; Sweden Stops Funding UNRWA

From Ian:

Poland Says It Will Arrest Bibi If Israeli PM Attends Auschwitz Liberation Anniversary

Polish officials said they will arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in compliance with a warrant from the International Criminal Court if he attends the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

"We are obliged to respect the provisions of the International Criminal Court," Władysław Bartoszewski, Poland’s deputy foreign minister, told Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita on Friday.

Dozens of world leaders are expected to attend the anniversary event on January 27, which will honor the estimated 1 million Jews who died in the Nazi genocide. Netanyahu is not due to attend the ceremony, according to Rzeczpospolita.

The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in November, which Israel appealed last week. Israel argued that the ICC does not have power over Israelis since the country is not bound to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the international court in 1998. Neither Israel nor the United States are parties to the treaty.

"The State of Israel denies the authority of the International Criminal Court in The Hague and the legitimacy of the arrest warrants," Netanyahu said in response to his arrest warrant.

U.S. Republican lawmakers also vowed to sanction the ICC and erode its legitimacy on the world stage following Netanyahu’s arrest warrant.

"The ICC has no credibility and these allegations have been refuted by the U.S. government," said Rep. Michael Waltz (R., Fla.), President-elect Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser. "Israel has lawfully defended its people & borders from genocidal terrorists. You can expect a strong response to the antisemitic bias of the ICC & UN come January."

Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment

Then there was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who gave the story a further epic dimension by returning to the original field of battle. Bibi, as you may recall, played the role of Obama’s piñata during the fight over the Iran deal, fated to go down to defeat by opposing the will of a sitting U.S. president on a foreign policy question that most Americans cared very little about. But this past summer, Netanyahu turned himself into the active party, with the means to reverse Obama’s achievement and unveil the origins of his power grab, by showing that the “peace deal” that he had sold to the American people—founded on the idea that Iran was itself a formidable adversary—was a mess of lies. Iran was not and never was a regional power, capable of “balancing” traditional American allies. It was a totalitarian shit hole regime that is deeply hated by its own people and throughout the region, entirely dependent on American backing in its efforts to gain a nuclear bomb.

Netanyahu’s decision to invade Rafah on May 6, 2024, was the culmination of two long and otherwise separate chains of events whose consequences will continue to reverberate throughout the Middle East, and also at home. Netanyahu had been promising to invade Rafah since February. The fact that he had not done so by May had become both a symbol of Israeli weakness and indecision in the face of a global onslaught of Jew-hatred, as well as the continuing solidity of the regional power structure established by Obama’s Iran deal. Within that structure, Israeli interests were held to be subordinate to those of Iran, which was allowed to finance, arm, and train large terrorist armies on Israel’s borders. Even when one of those armies decided to attack Israel in an orgy of murder and rape directed against civilians and recorded and broadcast live by the terrorists, Israel’s response was to be limited by its subordinate place in the regional hierarchy, underlining a reality in which Israel was fated to grovel before the whims of its American master—and would sooner or later most likely be ground into dust.

Israel could not strike Iran. Nor could it directly strike Hezbollah, the largest and most threatening of the Iranian-sponsored armies on its border, except to retaliate tit-for-tat for Hezbollah’s missile attacks on its civilian population. While it could invade Gaza, it could do so only while being publicly chided by U.S. officials from the president and the secretary of state for violating rules of wars that often appeared to be made up on the spot and were entirely divorced from common military practice and necessity. In particular, Israel was not to invade Rafah, a prohibition that ensured that Hamas could regularly bring in supplies and cash through the tunnels beneath its border with Egypt while ensuring the survival of its command-and-control structure, allowing it to reassume control of Gaza once the war was over, thereby assuring the success of U.S. policy, which was that Israel’s military invasion of Gaza must serve as the prelude to establishing a Palestinian state—an effort in which Hamas was a necessary partner, representing the Iranian interest, and must therefore be preserved in some part, even after being cut down to size.

Netanyahu’s decision to override the U.S. and take Rafah would turn out to be the prelude to a further series of stunning strategic moves which would enable Israel to smash the Iranian regional position and take full control of her own destiny. After conquering Rafah, in a campaign that the U.S. had said would be impossible without large-scale civilian casualties, Netanyahu proceeded to run the table in a series of rapid-fire blows whose only real point of comparison is Israel’s historic victory in the Six-Day War. In fact, given the odds he faced, and the magnitude of the victories he has won, that comparison may be unfair to Netanyahu, who has provided history with one of the very few examples of an isolated local client redrawing the strategic map of the region against the will of a dominant global power. Netanyahu killed terror chiefs Yahya Sinwar and Hassan Nasrallah; spectacularly eliminated nearly the entire upper military and political echelons of both terror armies on his border, Hamas and Hezbollah; turned both Gaza and Hezbollah’s strongholds in southern Lebanon and Beirut into rubble; and finally, last week, took out the entire stock of modern tanks, aircraft, naval vessels and chemical weapons and missile factories accumulated over the past six decades by the Syrian military.

While the questions of how and when the Iranian regime might fall are for the moment unanswered, it seems clear that Obama’s imagined new regional order in the Middle East, centered on the imagined power of the ayatollahs, is now gone—having disintegrated on contact with Netanyahu’s unanticipated willingness and ability to aggressively defend his castle. What role Biden’s resentment of Obama, especially after the humiliation of his removal from the Democratic ticket, contributed to his continued public backing of Israel, and his repeated declarations of his own Zionism, can be left up to the individual imagination, and to the diligence of future historians. I doubt it was zero, though. Again, the fault in the Obama party’s scheme to use Biden as an empty figurehead was the same fault in his handling of Musk: hubris.

Khaled Abu Toameh: How the International Community Can Best Help the Palestinians

Had the international community held the Palestinian Authority (PA) accountable for financial and administrative corruption after the signing of the Oslo Accords 30 years ago, the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group would not have gained popularity among Palestinians.

Although many Palestinians support Hamas's policy of rejecting Israel's right to exist, the Islamist group's victory greatly reflected the desire of the Palestinian public to end corruption in the PA government and institutions.

The most common forms of corruption seem to be the offenses of favoritism, nepotism, embezzlement of public funds, breach of trust, abuse of power, bribery and money laundering.

The best way to undermine Hamas and help the Palestinians is by offering the people a better alternative to the Islamist movement. The current Palestinian Authority leadership is just not seen by many Palestinians as a better alternative to Hamas. That is because the United States, European Union and other donors are not banging on the table and demanding an end to the PA's authoritarian and corrupt conduct.

Australia has its own "Jewish Voice for Peace" type group named the "Jewish Council of Australia."

We are proud Jewish people in Australia with diverse histories, traditions and politics. We are committed to the values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), calling out injustice, challenging assumptions and promoting debate.

Pro-Israel Jewish organisations, that do not recognise the diversity of views among Australian Jews, do not speak for us.

While we have diverse views on many issues, we are united in our opposition to Israel’s continued policies aimed at the destruction of Palestinian life. We are opposed to the Israeli occupation and the prioritisation of the rights of Jewish people over the rights of Palestinians.

They don't spell out the details, but it appears they support replacing Israel with what Moammar Qaddafi used to call "Isratine" where Palestinians would be allowed to immigrate from all over the world to outvote Jews, and then vote to take away all Jewish rights.

The irony is that while they say they exist because mainstream Jewish organizations don't speak for them, these fringe Jews are calling themselves the Jewish Council of Australia. They are trying to represent themselves as being the voice of Australian Jewry - as if they represent the vast majority of Australian Jews who are Zionist!

According to a 2023 survey, 77% of Australian Jews - and 86% of those who answered - consider themselves Zionists, while only 13% said they were not. The number who identify as Zionist actually increased since the previous survey in 2017.

The "Jewish Council of Australia" is not only representing a fringe minority as mainstream Australian Jewry, but a shrinking minority!

The JCA is especially clueless by claiming that they oppose burning down synagogues when their partners in "peace" are the ones doing the burning. JCA says it wants "to work in solidarity with other groups facing bigotry and discrimination to fight all forms of racism." They are the antisemites, idiots!

If anything, Jews in Australia are more committed to Israel than Jews in most countries. Over 70% of Australian Jews have visited Israel three times or more, over 70% have relatives in Israel, over 70% have close friends in Israel.

Like other anti-Zionist fringe groups worldwide, the JCA is trying to deceive the larger public into thinking that Jews are divided about Israel. Their very name shows that they are the ones who are misrepresenting themselves, not the major Zionist Jewish organizations.

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